HAR §23-201-5. Persons required to obtain a permit but exempt from fee

[(a)] (a) The director shall exempt from payment [-a] of the fee for registration or re-registration [of] any official or [agency of] agency of the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, [], Coast Guard, [Veteran's Administration] Department of Veterans Affairs or Public Health Service [who are] authorized to procure or purchase regulated chemicals for official use. [(b)] (b) Any official, employee, or other civil officer or agency of the United States, State or any political subdivision or agency thereof, who is authorized to purchase regulated [chemical] chemicals, to obtain such substances from official stocks, to dispense, to conduct research, instructional activities, or chemical analyses with such substances, or any combination thereof, in the course of their official duties or employment. [(c)] (c) Any person who is exempt from the permit registration fee [and] may apply to re-register not earlier than sixty days prior to the expiration date of the permit. A fee of $[25]50.00 shall be paid for processing of a permit after the expiration date on the permit. 5 (d) In order to enable law enforcement agency laboratories to obtain and transfer controlled substances for use as standards in chemical analyses, laboratories must obtain annually a registration to conduct chemical analyses. Such laboratories shall be exempted from payment[-] of any fee for registration." [Eff APR 15 2000 [I]] (Auth: HRS §§329-31, 353C-2) (Imp: HRS §329-32) 7. Section 23-201-7, Hawaii Administrative Rules, is amended to read as follows: "